Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 11

Thursday Evening October 8 1942 LAAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER REDUCED TAXES ON CORPORATION INCOMES VOTED 'WASHINGTON Oct The senate today tentatively vot ed to reduce the house approved corporation income tax rate from 45 to 40 per cent and to cut fam ily dependent exemptions from $400 the house figure to $300 The amendments were the first of a series of controversial pro posals taken up during the sec ond day of consideration of the $7500000000 war revenue bill big gest in history The 40 per cent combined nor mal and surtax rate is expected to increase to $107903000000 the share of the tax load to increase to $10790300000 the share of the tax load to be borne by business out of 1942 earnings It com pares with 31 per cent under ex isOting law and 55 per cent de manded by the treasury RATE REJECTED The rate was approved after the senate rejected 75 to 9 an attempt by Senator Robert La ollette (Prog Wis) to boost it to 5 per cent He denounced the entire measure as tax bill in charging that it imposes an and danger burden on families in the low income group and does not tax large income individuals and corporations Christian Church Banquet Is Held Rev Marshon DePoister of Rensselaer was the speaker Wed nesday evening at the annual ban quet for children of high school age at the irst Christian church in this city Women of the church served a chicken supper to the young people and their leaders Other speakers included Rev Doyle Mullen pastor Mrs rank King high school Sunday school super intendent James Hankins chair man of the Youth council and Robert Mangus president of the Christian Endeavor Robert Hamilton Is Hospital Patient Robert Hamilton agent of the Wabash railroad was taken seriously ill Tuesday at his home 319 Perrin avenue and has been removed to St Elizabeth hospital DEATHS 15 EXECUTED AS TERRORISM AROUSES ALL SCANDANAVIA LONDON Oct ifteen persons fell before a firingquad in Trondheim tonight the Oslo radio announced raising to 25 the number of trictims of new Nazi terrorism in Norway that is be lieved to have aroused all Scandinavia to a pitch unequalled since the Germans swept north in 1940 Nelson Praises Response To Scrap Drive WASHINGTON Oct Donald Nelson chairman of the war production board tonight said the American people were re sponding admirably to the current drive to collect metal scrap and urged patience with local boards and collectors in getting the ma 1 terial to processing channels from all sections of the Nelson said in a statement that patriotic Americans are responding admir ably to the appeal by the news to give scrap metal im mediately in order that our steel mills may operate at capacity "in some sections tne tonnage collected has exceeded our most optimistic hopes and the people of the country should realize that the facilities nesessary to clean prepare sort and bale this ma terial will be taxed to the limit and that operating at capacity it will" take some time to move all this material These victory stock piles however will and must en sure continued operations trade channels cannot im mediately buy and start processing the victory stock piles I assure the patriotic citizens of the coun try that the government will do sb because all of the material Is so urgently Boys Overzealous In Metal Crusade About 400 pounds of iron taken Tuesday from the back yard at the Sherman Nelson home 1515 Salem street was recovered Thursday at Washington school by the police who said that boys anxious to aid the scrap metal drive had taken three sections of an old boiler that had been re moved from the basement Myers 114 South Thirtieth street owner of the property had re ported the loss Boys said they would haul the metal back in a cart NEWSBRIES GEN HEAD QUARTERS Australia Oct 7 (UP) Australian troops pushing northward through New Guineawithout opposition have penetrat ed the 6170 foot high Owen Stan ley mountain gap to the point where it drops downhill toward the Japanese base at Kokoda front dispatches said tonight WASHINGTON Oct AP) Petroleum Coordinator Harold Ickes urging continued explor ations for new oil fields in order tp offset heavy military as well as civilian requirements told a senate public lands subcommittee today that the price ceilings on crude oil might have to be raised to encourage new wildcat drilling IRE IN GARAGE A porch chair and cushion were damaged by fire in the garage at the home of Mrs Ernest Holmes 1209 Rochester street at 7:45 a Thursday the fire starting from wood that Mrs Holmes had removed from her fireplace had wrapped in paper and carried out ire Companies 1 and 3 responded SANG SOLO The name of Mrs William Heath was unintentionally omit ted from the story of the Council of Church Women meeting Tues day at Brown Street Methodist church Mrs Heath sang a solo REDS BLAST THROUGH SOME NAZI DEENSES (Continued rom Page One) saults against the Volga river metropolis with undiminished fury launching attack upon at tack under protection of air fleets and artillery barrages but that the soviet defenders refused to be thrown back an inch Numerous residential areas which had been unaffected earlier in the siege were said to have been turned into a mass of debris by mighty nazi aerial assaults The new break through made by the Russians northwest of the city cost the nazis heavy losses In men and equipment the high command said "Northwest of the communique said "our troops broke into the positions Inflicting heavy On another sector the Germans attempted to attack soviet posi tions in a desperate effort to stem the onrushing red troops pound ing at the nazi rear to relieve pressure against Stalingrad This assault was successfully beaten off the communique said Soviet troops in the mid Cau casus after previously giving ground in the Mozdok area re pelled a series of new German attacks according to the com munique BATTLING IN CAUCASUS Terrific battles were in progress In the western Caucasus where soviet units battle Rumanian troops for possession of an im portant height "In all these engagements heavy losses are being inflicted on the enemy" the communique said Referring to what was termed a "local action" on the Leningrad front the communique reported that soviet units inflicted consid erable losses on the Germans when they broke Into nazi de fense positions At the conclusion of the fray It was added the Russians returned to their own lines At midnight the high command reported that the nazis lost 1800men at Stalingrad during the 24 hours preceding the issuance of the communique Condemned by a special court whcih rejected their appeals for mercy the 15 were executed at 7 in the presence of the Trondheim chief of police the German controlled broadcast said Two other Norwegians received seven year prison sentences and another defendant was discharg ed RUTHLESS NAZIS Authoritative quarters here re ported the ruthless German re prisals were touched off by a plot to sabotage the Trondheim naval base nest of German raid ers which prey on Allied convoys Ten hostages were executed and 700 persons arrested last night and today the Germans extended martial law over a 500 mile strip of the central Norway coast and rushed 25000 more soldiers to pa trol the shoreline against new patriot moves Norwegian sources said Culler Resident Hurt in Accident CUTLER Oct Miss Bonny Lou Jervis is recovering from se vere cuts and bruises received in an automobile accident Miss Kathleen Yerks of Deer Creek driver of the car has a broken rib The Senior girls and Miss Wil son sponsor of the Sunshine so ciety attended a meeting and dinner at Indianapolis Mr and Mrs Chalmer Squires and son have moved to the prop erty recently occupied by Mr and Mrs Guy Aiken and family Mr and Mrs Clarence McCau ley and daughter of Kokomo were guests of Mr and Mrs Everette McCauley and son A son Billy Leon was born Oc tober 3 to Mr and Mrs Kenneth Kelly Cpl Robert Pitzer of Camp Lee Va is spending a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs Albert Pitzer and other friends and relatives The Junior class and sponsor Everette McCauley and family held a party at the home of Rich ard Weakley Doctors and the county nurse planned to be here riday Octo ber 9 to vaccinate school chil dren JEERSON Homecoming services were held Sunday at the Jefferson church Huffman of Hammond was the speaker Mrs Robert Lei benguth of Hartford Conn Mrs Grace' Bailey of Lafayette and Mrs Bernard Stoops of Sedalia were out of town guests at the church Carl Curts of Lafay ette attended church at Jefferson His son Melvin a former student at Little Jeff is located at an army camp in Oklahoma Sev eral school students have been ab sent for farm work and must make special preparation for tests this week Mr and Mrs Crump ton and children spent last week in Kentucky visiting Mrs Crump parents The senior freshman party was sponsored by the seniors at the school build ing Thursday evening Margar et Ardashier of owler spent the week end with her parents Mr and Mrs Ardashier Mrs Dawn Good is visiting her son and family in Michigan EX BEER BARON INDICTED NEW YORK Oct (AP) Waxey Gordon beer baron of Broadway in the prohibition era was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a charge of violat ing a rationing order regulating the sale of sugar 175 WAVES ENTRAIN CHICAGO Oct Sixty women from the Chicago area were among the first contingent of 175 enlisted Waves from all over the country who entrained today for three months training at Oklahoma A and college at Stillwater Okla JAP WITHDRAWAL ROM ALEUTIANS INDICATED (Continued rom Page One) marines landed there early in Au gust The Guadalcanal operations were examined by President Roosevelt and Pacific war coun cil members They also discussed the situation at Port Moresby and in the Aleutians and re ported later that it appeared to be stationary but encouraging Council members said they had received no "dramatic informa After this meeting Mr Roose velt held a luncheon conference with Admiral Ernest King commander in chief of the fleet They presumably canvassed the Pacific war picture from the Aleutians to the Solomons as well as the situation in the At lantic and elsewhere Text of navy communique No 143: "North Pacific: "1 (A) reconnaissance by our aircraft has failed to detect any signs of continued enemy oc cupancy or activity on Attu and Agattu in the western Aleutians for several weeks "(B) In the latter part of Sep tember army aircraft bombed Attu destroying most of the buildings on the island A study of photographs made during the raid revealed no trace of the enemy on Attu at that time A similar situation has been ob served at Aggattu Attacks by our aircraft on Kiska continued On Oct 5 army Liberator bombers escorted by fighters dropped many demolition and incendiary bombs on the camp area Hits were made on the seaplane hangar and six en emy seaplane fighters were shot down Only light anti aircraft op position was encountered and all of our aircraft Six Menibers of New Stabilization Board Are Named WASHINGTON Oct James Byrnes director of eco nomic stabilization announced to day the appointment of six public members of the new economic sta bilization board and at the same time said he had asked the trea sury to make recommendations for regulations designed to hold down salaries in the high brack ets These members appointed by President Roosevelt were named to the advisory board: Representatievs of Labor: Wil liam Green president of the Am erican ederation of Labor Phil ip Murray president of the CIO Agriculture: James Patton president armers Cooperative Union and Edward presi dent of the American arm Bu reau ederation Management: Eric A Johnston president of the Chamber of Com merce of the United states and Ralph landers president of Jones and Lamson Machine com pany Springfield Vt Jeff Parents and Teachers Active Jefferson high school Parent Teacher association held its first meeting of the year Wednesday evening with Mrs Roy Miner president presiding A panel discussion on Parents People in the Eyes of Their Adolescent was in charge of Earl Carroll Students taking part in the dis cussion were: Margene awbush Phyllis White Lowell Brower and Jack Pearlman with Mrs A Lewis and Mrs James Morgan representing the parents' Mrs Aaron Sparrendahl program chairman then introduced Prof Leland Winch who talked on Mrs Miner introduced other of ficers and also announced new committee chairmen for the year as follows: Vice President Mrs Aaron Sparrendahl and Lynn Miller secretary Mrs James Morgan treasurer Mont gomery student representatives Bob Sparrendahl and Jean Ikins membership chairman Mrs Harry McGlothlin budget and finance Miss Irma Slayback program Mrs Sparrendahl student aid Mrs Harry Hart bookstall Mrs Jerry Brandon health Mrs Ray mond Robertson hospitality Mrs Harold McLellen parliamentarian Mrs Harold Graves publications Mrs A Lewis publicity Earl Carroll standard of excel lence Mrs Claude Hudson maga zines Mrs Ivan Nice radio Mrs Harvey infrock registration Mrs William McGreevy study club Miss Gleela Ratcliff his torian Mrs Harvey Sellers safety Heber Short war activi ties Mrs Hugh Henderson Refreshments were served by the hostesses Mrs Barrett Mrs red Marks Mrs John isher and Mrs Sparrendahl rep resenting the Crouch mothers and Mrs Dewey easter Mrs Robert Lahr Mrs Charles Bush and Mrs Victor Munson of Elston The next meeting will be held Nov 4 and will be a reception for Jefferson high school teach ers with parents representing Linnwood and Longlois schools as hosts Hospital News Dismissals from St Elizabeth hospital: Edward Beecher 509 New Yojk Robert ausset Cary Hall ay Gilmore Monticello Mrs Ralph Harris and daughter route 1 Mrs Harold Lane 2130 Meharry Mrs Robert Rohrabaugh and son Delphi Harley Thayer 257 West Wood and Gene Turcotte Brook ston Admittants to the Home hos pital: Mrs Martin Irion 222 Wiggins Miss Ellen Bell rankfort Hor ace Hoover 1215 Main Mrs Gar net Phillips 603 South Twenty fourth Dismissals from the Home hos pital: Mrs Louise Abbott 339 Sylvia: Julia Ann Reed 1025 Vine loyd Clymer West Lafayette Mrs Le ota Snyder Mulberry and Betty Rohrabaugh South Eighteenth Emma Hoffine 220 South Sixth street underwent a tonsil opera tion Thursday at the Home hos pital Indiana Realtors Open Convention INDIANAPOLIS Oct (AP) The Indiana Real Estate asso ciation opened its 28th annual convention here today with the proposal for enactment by the 1943 general assembly of a state real estate license law occupying a prominent place of the agenda Double Lights for Two Busy Corners Installation of the new double type traffic lights at Ninth and South and Ninth and Columbia streets was completed Thursday it was announced by Carl Bauer city electrician The new lights are much better seen than the old ones They were installed by city workmen at the expense of the state highway commission Autos Crash Jack Bremer 22 of 282 Lit tleton street West Lafayette was slated for failing to yield right of way following an automobile collision at Seventh and South streets Wednesday midnight He was released to appear in city court Saturday 'Die other car was driven by Bedford Wood 29 Brookston Divorce Suit lomella Strange has brought suit in circuit court for a divorce from Bert Strange They were married last ebruary 18 and sep arated September 28 Theodore Smith attorney INANT BARRETT Mickey Gene Barrett Infant son of Mr and Mrs Herman Bar rett 2301 Elk street born Wed nesday morning at the Home hos pital died that afternoon and fu neral services were held at the grave in Springvale cemetery Thursday afternoon Rev Glover Wesleyan Methodist church pastor officiated Surviv ing with the parents is a sister Ina Jean three brothers James Robert and Donald and the pa ternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Barrett Otterbein Hip pensteel funeral home in charge GEORGE IRA NIOCUM MONTICELLO Oct 7 George Ira Niccum 60 of Burnettsville died at 6:30 a Wednesday at St Joseph hospital in Logans port Surviving are the wife a son Pvt Gerald Niccum Camp William Read Clovis Mex a daughter Mrs Wanda Hicks Marion three stepchildren: Mrs Golda Erhanbaugh Hammond Mrs Ruby rentress Hammond and Pvt John Whitaker Kelly field Texas a sister Mrs Stella McVay Anderson and three brothers: William Newcastle El mer Sweezy and Oza Anderson The body was taken to the Miller funeral home in Idaville Services will be held at 2 riday from the funeral home Rev Dodson officiating bur ial in Davis cemetery AYE GEE LUCAS REMINGTON Oct Aye Gee Lucas 62 was found dead at 10:30 a Wednesday at his ountain Park cottage where he had lived for a week Mr Lucas was the sexton at the Remington cemetery Earl Burling of south of Remington found the body and Dr Gwin Newton county cor oner was called Dr Gwin stated that Mr Lucas had been dead at least two days He had last been seen Sunday Mr Lucas was a member of the I and had lived in Remington for 15 years Surviving are two sons: Lester and Herschel Gary three sisters: Mrs Lillian Leach and Mrs Qua nita Brosky Gary and Mrs Etta Patton Monticello and a brother James Burr Remington The body was taken to the Howard funeral home Services will be held at 2 riday from the funeral home Rev McHenry officiating burial in the Remington cemetery MARTHA ROSA LERCH MONON Oct 7 Martha Rosa Lerch 50 of Monon died at 3 Wednesday at her home after complications of an illness of several years She was born in Hoopeston Ill and married William Lerch Sept 17 1908 She had been operating a restaur ant in Monon for the past 16 years Mrs Lerch was a member of the Christian church Surviving are a son: William Lerch Monon a daughter: Mrs Clara Wykoff Monon and six brothers and sisters: Mrs Emma Strayer and Charles Bishoff Ko komo Andrew Michoff Michigan City Mrs Ruby Ross Mrs Mary Stong Lafayette and George Bishoff Peoria Ill The body was taken to the Hen ry funeral home where friends may call Services will be held riday at 1 from the fun eral home Rev Wilburt Littrell officiating burial in the Ambia cemetery To Keep Loans At 85 of Parity WASHINGTON Oct (AP) Secretary of Agriculture Wickard announced today that govern ment loan rates to farmers on corn and wheat would be kept at 85 percent of parity to en courage maximum production of meat dairy and poultry products for war needs Wickard acted at the direction of James Byrnes director of economic stabilization The recently enacted anti infla tion law directed that loan rates on the basic crops wheat corn cotton rice tobacco and pea nuts for the edible trade be in creased from 85 to 90 percent of parity except in cases where such increases might interfere with food production problems by increasing livestock feed prices Church Event Members and friends of Wild Cat Christian church are invited to a business and social meeting in the church basement riday evening Oct 9 at 7:30 Rev Ephraim Lowe Indianapolis will speak on "You Can Have a Church Ice cream and cake will be served HOUSE COMMITTEE APPROVES WAR BILL (Continued rom Page One) The small carrier does not really pay it is not an Admiral Towers told the com mittee that the aircraft industry still has not achieved its peak production have found that aircraft manufacturers can nroduce more planes than even they thought they he asserted The admiral predicted that peak production ofr naval planes will not be reached until De cember 1943 but he declined to say publicly when the navy will achieve its 27500 plane force He also disclosed that the ma rine corps is embarking on a program of glider construction Each glider will cost about $20 COO are big he said and then indicating that they will be used for invasion pur poses added "We are buying two principal types: one a 12 place and the other a 24 place gliders are not any thing like that Rep Scrug ham (D Nev) remarked Admiral Towers agreed Other funds in the bill which was sent to the house floor for action included $1773000000 for other navy items and approxi mately $700000000 for various agencies of the government with $500000000 of the latter allocated to defense housing Ex Correspondent or Journal Courier Dies at Residence Malina McCombs 78 one of the Journal and oldest news correspondents died at her home 15 Salisbury West La fayette at 4 Wednesday after an illness of two years Mrs McCombs was born in Sheffield township Tippecanoe county the daughter of David and Rebecca (Lucas) Brelsford She married McCombs March 4 1890 and they had just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary two years ago She had been a correspondent for the Journal and Courier 37 years at Christian Ridge until illness pre vented Mr and Mrs McCombs had lived at Christian Ridge for 50 years Mrs McCombs was a member of the United Breth ern church and had transferred to the Dayton Methodist church Surviving are the husband three daughters: Mrs Alta Hor lacher rankfort 6 Miss Lura McCombs and Miss Hazel McCombs at home two brothers: Brelsford Perry Iowa and Brelsford West Lafayette and two sisters: Mrs Joanna Hardwick Indianapolis and Mrs Racheal Thompson rankfort The body will be returned to the residence riday morning where friends may call until 10 a Saturday The body will then be returned to the Baker funeral home Dayton where services will be held at 3 Saturday Rev A Griffin of ficiating burial in the Salem cemetery Rodeheaver Sings Here This Evening Homer Rodeheaver world fa mous evangelistic singer will pre sent a sacred concert this eve ning at Central Presbyterian church beginning at 8 The Christian Endeavor Union is sponsoring his appearance Rode heaver first gained prominence through his association with the late Rev Billy Sunday colorful preacher and has given concerts in mAny parts of the world Radio eature A radio transcription written and produced by professionals will be broadcast Thursday at 8:15 over Pur due station WBAA The broad cast stresses the need of getting voters to the polls and is a part of the Tippecanoe County League of Women Voters program DUMP IRE ire Company 2 went to a dump fire on the Canal road at 1pm Thursday ARC Today Thru Sat iwftOVtilllllMRr BsckJOMSli TimMcCOy IWTON WIT '55 RICHMOND unr iicittiu im inw LATEST PATHE NEWS COMING SUNDAY IT A SIZZLING I TR AVAG AN A sonjn Heme johh pnyne A HEAT WAVE WAY UP NORTH! after a lusty leatherneck A WOL from level nnuifluniio AND HIS Unlllu ilnuu orchestra Dire tee by HUGE HUMIEISTONE PrbducU by WILLIAM Let AHU a I I 2b I MAM Main STARTS TODAY Double eature What A Lover! 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